AMD: New Ryzen 7040U Chips Can Best Intel's Raptor Lake, Apple's M2
AMD is preparing a new batch of Ryzen chips designed for ultrathin laptops that promise to beat rival silicon from both Intel and Apple.
AMD's Ryzen 7040U series will arrive across four chips built with Zen 4 architecture starting this month, with availability ramping throughout the quarter.
According to the company’s own benchmarks, the CPUs can best Intel’s Core i7-1360P “Raptor Lake” chip for thin laptops and Apple’s M2 processor for MacBooks.
The 7040 name may sound familiar. At CES 2023, the company debuted the Ryzen 7040 HS series, which also target ultrathin laptops. The chips can also reach at least 5GHz in boosted clock speeds, but run at a higher TDP from 35 to 45 watts.
The 7040U series, on the other hand, runs at a lower TDP, from 15 to 30 watts. On the downside, the chips feature lower base and max clock speeds. But the most powerful chip in the series, the Ryzen 7 7840U, can still reach up to 5.1GHz in boost speeds.
AMD is marketing the chips as offering the fastest performance in their class for both productivity and content creation. To demonstrate this, the company’s benchmarks claim the Ryzen 7 7840U can offer a 29% to 128% performance increase over Intel’s Raptor Lake chip when it comes to application-related tasks, such as web browsing and media encoding.
The Ryzen 7 7840U also outperformed Apple’s M2 chip, although to a lesser degree, according to AMD's tests.
The other feature of the Ryzen 7040U series is the integrated graphics. The chips will come with Radeon 700M built-in GPUs, which now boast even higher clock speeds and improved power efficiency over the RDNA3 architecture. As a result, AMD claims the 7040U chips can offer a 30% to 139% performance increase in PC games compared to Intel’s
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